Don't waste time or time will waste you (phyxius) wrote,
Don't waste time or time will waste you
phyxius
Here's a site for determining where one sits, politically, in a more defined sense than the traditional left-right continuum. Basically it simply adds a social scale (up&down), to create a two dimensional map on which to better plot points. This let's you illustrate, for instance, the differences between the kind of authoritarian governments run by a Hitler and a Stalin. It's not a radical concept, but it's one which generally gets ignored when people go talking about "left and right," particularly in the USA.



Some to compare it to:







It's interesting that most of the worlds' leaders are in the top half. I wonder if that'll stay the same in the coming years.
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